Word: certain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...That the first great Nazi air raid is timed for a certain day next week-it is always "next week," and frequently Tuesday...
...tangle of strings attached. The river would be opened only as far as Nanking-a still dead city 193 miles upriver from Shanghai, only one-third of the stretch held by Japan. It would be opened "at the proper time"-not immediately. Navigation would be subject to "certain restrictions necessary for the maintenance of order and military operations...
...test, Dr. Althausen feeds his patients 40 grams of galactose, a sugar derived from milk and certain gummy plants, but not normally present in human blood. After an hour, a drop of blood is taken from an ear lobe, and tested for the presence of galactose. A normal person will have from 20 to 30 milligrams of the sugar in every hundred cubic centimetres of blood; a hyperthyroid. around 70 milligrams; a diabetic, whose thyroid is not stepped up, shows the same amount of galactose as a normal person, although, of course, his blood and urine are saturated with unused...